skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought the ink plate from https://www.crowdsupply.com/e-radionica/inkplate-6 to do the same type of project but have not got around to it yet. This is a good walk through for the display portion of the project. It would be a local status app slideshow instead of the web page. I am planning on getting a wall mount that allows me to easily charge and have it in a central location while still being able to take it off of the wall to do admin on the setup. I was originally leaning towards making it a quasi-dedicated ereader but between the boox note air and the remarkable tablets, the extra money to get writing functions is well worth it to me.
https://ibkr.info/article/2892

https://us.etrade.com/l/f/disclosure-library/otc

Would you like more?
This is really good! I couldn't find a good lightweight ePub reader. Is it open source though? I'd love to customize it a bit :)
You let the real economy be post-growth and you do a money printer go brrr. There, now the economy is financialized and stonks only go up.
> What did people think was going to happen?

That brokerages would remain neutral and allow buy and sell orders of listed stocks like they do on other days. It's totally fair to acknowledge a sudden and unpublished rule change at the market open that foreseeably led to big price swings.

At a minimum, the SEC needs to step in and describe the exact circumstances when brokerages are allowed to unilaterally halt sales of securities. Markets where people don't understand the rules are worse than casinos.
I'm guessing with politicians starting to take advantage of the outrage, someone in the chain decided it's better to eat the cost.
Trump still has millions of supporters after years of negative headlines.

Idk who is still going to use RH but I know they exist.
Market manipulation is still market manipulation whether you write them in tiny font letters or buried under a pile of legal verbosity.

Spirit of the law is always considered in situations like this when it isn't explicitly made clear (like on the splash screen) will always fall under scrutiny and rejected at the jury level.

You can sign away your life but it doesn't make it legal because there are fundamental laws that pertain to human rights in the West as such are security laws.

RH broke the trust and if what we are hearing is true, they may have colluded with the conflict of interest parties that took massive short positions before pressuring RH to halt trades may lead to actual jail times for the people involved.

In the past the Obama administration has been soft on wallstreet but the Biden administration has signaled they are willing to play big government. Especially as politicized as the whole GME/WSB has gotten, there's zero chance they will pass up on the opportunity to win the popular support.
You don't understand how disallowing people to buy into a stock causes the price to drop, or you disagree that disallowing the purchase of a stock causes the price to drop? From my perspective it seems rather straight forward that if you artificially limit demand and not supply, you'll almost always see price drop.
I actually think you are sadly wrong with that hope, as much as I also wish it were true.

Unfortunately, many people (sadly including the far left, who 10 years ago I would have called myself part of) & the media are actively celebrating these blocks and shutdowns because it serves their ideology. For now.
probably a reasonable starting point: http://arclanguage.org/
Interesting. You think that my criticism of BLM and antifa is about peaceful protests. Or that sometimes protests become violent and thats acceptable? Ah ok. So them also looting random business and demanding people handing over houses is fine because... 100s of years of racism?

I see. I'm trying to understand the situation of a vietamese family running a grocery store that is hit by BLM rioters who begin looting the contents thereof.

But its "ok". Its just payback for 100s of years of racism. I'm sure those vietnamese understand that their little store needs to be punished. Its all "fine". As they lose their livelihood.

Wrong. Its nothing to do with anything righteous. Its just thugs running wild causing mischief and creating more injustice.

I've got nothing against protests against racism. You seem to be conflating the right to protest with the "right" to riot and cause pointless damage and random violence.

We should definitely be condemning any BLM members using violence to rob stores and beat up random people. Otherwise you lose any shred of moral decency. You become part of the problem.

But mine is an unpopular opinion apparently. Not allowed to criticise BLM or Antifa because their violence is somehow righteous. Just make sure you're not in their way. Even if you support them. They are happy to punch you in the face either way.
Maybe. Would he have been margin called without their earlier action?
John Ohno is a treasure. Very few people out there with well calibrated macroscopes like John.

There's some hand waving (a lot) here, but we've lived under 20 years of de-empowerment: simplifying consumerizing, cloudifying. We used to try to make computing itself better. That innovation has been quelled.
In what ways are these the same?
Here's the thing though, it's always been this way with margin agreements. Even before tech cos with impenetrable ToS agreements.

I'm beginning to wonder if the people who rushed into this "war" really ever knew what they were getting themselves into? Especially the ones who bought on margin. It's such a risk, and obvious loss in this situation, that I can't imagine any non-suicidal financial actor doing it?
There are indeed no hard caps. There is a formula that is used that takes into account various costs, such as heating and electricity as well as improvements made to the property, and using that formula along with the included utilities, a maximum percentage of price increase is calculated.

It's generally under inflation. A typical price increase cap might be 1.8%.

For cases where the landlord actually asks for a hearing, the average is of around 2.9%.

If no major repairs were necessary, you'll see around 1% or increase, maybe a bit more.
Possible reasons:

1. Allocation of engineering effort

2. Familiarity with readers

3. Discoverability
I think the Bitcoin example was exactly what the investors were thinking. A stock that magically always goes up and everybody gets rich.

With a real stock, somebody has to be left holding the bag at the end. (Probably with BitCoin as well, but that's a separate discussion.)

My understanding was that, with the short squeeze, for a certain number of those stocks the buyer would be the hedge funds. But it seems like at this point there must be way more stocks that the buyers have bought than the hedge funds have shorted, no?
Can you also add the working directory in which each command was run?
You should have a version, but given the (admittedly unrealistic) choice between versioning and extensibility I’ll take extensibility every time. There are plenty of formats where there’s a version tag and it’s never been bumped past “1”.

Early compressed audio / video formats were generally a total mess, with a couple exceptions like MOV, so I’m not surprised that MP3 is horrible.
Not on the iPad but I've had some success with Repl.it. It's used through the browser, and supports Python. It helps, as well, by permitting sharing of content between you and the student more directly (no need, at this stage, to figure out other code sharing mechanisms like git).
>Difference is, I didn't run to Reddit to display my ignorance to the world.

Erm isn't the point of communities like Reddit to discuss? The implication that there's a certain class of people who are suited to stocks and a certain class that isn't is exactly why people are so impassioned about this right now.
Why Robinhood Stopped Trading on GME
This. Not sure about the US, but starting a company seems pretty damn daunting from where I'm standing
The problem is in how people use it.

If I say it's a slippery slope from A to B, what that's supposed to mean is that A being true will increase the risk of B becoming true if other things happen as well.

How it's often used though is that if A is a slippery slope to B then A is equivalent to B, and thus any issue with B is an unavoidable issue for A. And of course it gets worse when people jump from A to Z.
For this reason I imagine that the first unconfirmed leak mentioned in another post will be far from the last. As if WSB vs. hedge funds wasn't a crazy enough story itself, the sequel to The Big Short is pretty much writing itself as the other players in the system expose exactly where they stand. Regulators and the Federal Government chapters incoming...
And here is a (poorly written) article saying that "top bankers" say WFH is falling apart: https://montrealgazette.com/executive/careers/top-bankers-so...

We'll see whose opinions matter more when this is over... workers or executives.
My only question is if this is getting an AWS-like key-value store tied into their KMS offering? The big value of AWS System Manager was actually just having a secure key-value store tied into AWS IAM auth.
Works for Facebook and others.
we placed it to mitigate the risk on your account

Wow, that's pretty awful since liquidating the position may actually put the user at a net loss, which wouldn't avoid risk: It would actually "instantiate" the potential risk of having to sell the stock after falling below the purchase price.

Why not give users the opportunity to provide more collateral for their margin?
I disagree with you.

"It's more in the average person's interests to have an index-traded-funds go up a reliable amount each year."

You are saying that people are too dumb to decide what to do with their own money, and that's not your call.

The reason this is a crime against everyone is because there's allegedly a "free market", but moments like this show that the emperor has no clothes and that in fact that's not the case.
Possibly, you are only part of the crash if you have to buy at the top which, from my understanding, would be the short sellers as it is driven to a 1 time spike. There would be bag holders from not having limits set correctly and all but that's the risky play.

Doing this way ensures that retail loses, 100%. Only a retail app was blocked.

It is the asymmetry, I can't see a valid reason for unilateral action from RH here.
Curious what you think of something like this: https://qualex.dev to solve the problem of incomplete commit messages?
This argument is a slippery slope implying any comment can be objected.
>doesn't even know what Coinbase is.

I kinda wonder about that. I've been INUNDATED by Coinbase advertisements on mobile apps and etc talking about incentives for learning what they do and etc.

They seem to really be pushing to get the general public on board.
What kind of strawman is that? They let you buy GME until yesterday. Stop being intellectually dishonest.
Firefox seems to ignore /etc/hosts on Linux, since I have Hacker News set to localhost and I'm browsing it right now.

I tried the LeechBlock extension (I think it works even on Mobile), but I always end up disabling it :(. Also for some reason it eats a lot of system resources.
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Also if Robinhood wins this, theoretically they can do the same to $AAPL, $MSFT, $AMZN , now how does the uber rich , fund managers, union funds, 401k etc etc would react? where does this stop.

Its either a free trade market , or its not!
This explains the subset of articles blaming this on Nazis.
That's like saying virginity is a fetish. Atheism is not a religion, it's a lack of belief in a supernatural deity.
I though they would generally give you the opportunity to provide more collateral for your margin though. Or am I wrong on that?
From what I understand Robinhood's actions today only impacted derivatives of GME, not trades involving the actual underlying equity (which, I imagine, is what most people actually own).
I love the typesetting on old books like this.

I bought a truckload of old Radar and microwave engineering books, and they're remarkably useful even today (the fundamentals of information theory haven't change since 195-whatever for example). Obviously computers were out of reach, so lots of integration tricks and awful rules of thumb in places.
Lunik: The CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite
Reading HN this whole month has been disheartening after reading so many comments defending the insurrection and Parler.
>Why should Robinhood pick a winner (siding against their own customers)?

If you consume a free product you aren't the customer, the person who pays the provider money is.
Great Hoax [pdf]
I could imagine coinbase have critical cookies containing user sessions attached to coinbase.com.

If they have a wordpress blog at blog.coinbase.com, then any xss attack in wordpress can steal customer accounts.

Sure, it's a fixable problem (by moving high security cookies into login.coinbase.com or something similar), but that's a big migration, and probably nowhere near the top of the engineering priority list.
Fair point - though that's not supported by qutebrowser either, and most probably never will be.
She is forced to do that due to cancel culture in the progressive circles. If she starts agreeing with Ted Cruz or working with Cruz, she will eventually be accused of working with evil fascist Ted Cruz or something similar and be subject to cancellation attempts from her previous supporters.

Edit: If the Capitol riot hadn't happened, she would have said some other reason for not working with Cruz. That's just how the cancel culture works in progressive circles.
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Title of this HN post is correct in the sense that it’s the title of the referenced article, but that title is wrong for the article’s content.

The article claims computer science hasn’t moved forward (much) since 1978, claiming that the changes in the 40 years between 1940 and 1980 were much larger than those between the next 40 years (1980 and 2020)

I think a simple model could explain that. Let’s say computing went from ‘1’ to ‘41’ in those first forty years, an improvement of about a factor of 40. Keeping the same speed, it would have gone from ‘41’ to ‘81’ in the second 40 years, an improvement of about a factor of 2. That’s an order of magnitude less than that factor of 40.

You can change those numbers to get any difference you want. Point is that, if progress is more or less linear and improvements are measured as relative size differences, improvement rate always will slow down over time.

Now, whether that model or something like it holds, I’m not sure about, but I think it might hold for many new fields (what happened after the invention of the alphabet, for example? A few thousand new glyphs, emoji, etc. were added, but there’s not much really new there)
Your mention of Deutsche Bahn reminds me of how their first online timetable was some guy's email address, he extracted data from their CD-ROM, and created a service that periodically fetched his e-mails, parsed them (the timetable query had to have a particular syntax), processed the routes, and sent replies to the e-mails.

It ran on a (IIRC) 486 in his student apartment.

I wish I could link you to this story, sadly Google nowadays can give you train timetables, but it no longer cares what words you enter in a search query, it just thinks I'm looking for the schedule information of train services around me.
Using machine learning to build a dialect classifier
Is that like a dark pool? Where do HFTs make this available?
I didn't lose a cent, i made over 60% the last few days. If i was using robinhood, i'd be blocked from doing that.
Wow. Very useful.

Keeping a bookmark for when I need it and I will use this sometime in future I am sure.
No it doesn't apply. If you are dining in a restaurant and it starts putting cocaine into your coffee, that's still very illegal, regardless of whether you can choose another restaurant.

One sided halting in a moment like this reeks of market manipulation, which is illegal.
Did you close your position for a profit?

Or did you get margin called?

GME shot up to 452, then 90 minutes later, it fell to 126.
They are going to keep changing the rules so nobody can win but the big guys.
For the cynics like myself. The lack of action on the part of the government to restrict and hold corporations to the same level as the government is supposedly held by the constitution seems intentional.

Its a backdoor way around the constitutional restrictions. AKA the government can't restrict free speech or search your house everyday, but its going to allow everyone else to restrict and search your house for the same effect. Given the close ties between the leaders & .001%, the result is the same. It won't matter to you when you get charged with a crime you didn't commit whether the government was tracking your phone or the phone company reports your phone to the government. The result is the same.
One of these reasons is often the lack of jobs. Suburbs are actually often fairly expensive since they try to bring the good of the country (individual houses, bigger lots) closer to the city where good jobs are located.
Naked mole rats speak in dialect
Really? I _know_ I read everything, both for my loan and for the purchase, when I bought my apartment. It wasn't really that much. It took a few hours. I didn't read every law that the contract referred to, but I read the contract itself.

Is a house really that much worse when it comes to paperwork? Or is the US just that much worse with this stuff?
Because like anything that gets suddenly popular, r/wsb and discord wsb got flooded with spammers.
I can tell you why I stopped using USENET: because so few other people were using it it was no longer worthwhile. I would go back to it if enough other people did. I use Reddit now, and Reddit is just an inferior USENET.
What is the state in 2021?
Coinbase can be the next Robinhood.

It will be much better if the crypto community moved to decentralized exchanges like Bisq.
I believe you mean they prevented buying. Obviously the positions could be liquidated (sold).
Seconded, this is a hell of a read. The guy's mother is the real hero.

EDIT This is a perfect example of the Hero's Journey [1]

Call to adventure: the kid selling tamales in the bar

Supernatural aid: his mother

The threshold: calling round the various suppliers

Challenges and temptations: making the tamales by hand

Revelation: he conceives the machine

Transformation: hiring the machinists, perfecting the machine

Atonement with the father: the patent attorney?!

Return: throwing the Cinco de Mayo party

Perfect, i tell you!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
> She should be sued for that. She's claiming that Ted Cruz is actually trying to get her killed.

Ted Cruz would have to prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that he not only was not doing so, but that AOC actually knew, or reasonably should have known, he was not. Given that the specific notional basis for her accusations is her knowledge (and not only from public sources) of his involvement with the Jan. 6 insurrection, that’s probably not something he wants publicly litigated in a court of law, since it's something he desperately wants to erase from the minds of everyone not actually sympathetic to the insurrection, while still staying on the good side of the pro-insurrectionists.
This isn't just TOS though. It's a pretty short and easy agreement that you're accepting.

https://cdn.robinhood.com/assets/robinhood/legal/RHF%20and%2...

You'll find a similar concise and clear statement from every broker when you enable margin trading.
That's always been a challenge; usually the model is to sell features or certification if you go open source. Alot of people buy RHEL for FIPS 140-2 validation, for example.

Even in closed source, some of these business models are dumb with or without open source being in the mix. Think about companies like Citrix or VMWare who are essentially selling their customer book to Microsoft and to a lesser extent Amazon for virtual desktops, and to Microsoft, Amazon and Google in the server space. ISVs used to compete with each other to sell their stuff to run customer desktops or datacenters. There was no aggregation of their runtimes Now for most of the market they are competing with each other to rent their software on big platforms, which may opt to strangle them at any time.

On the open source side, people who need FIPS still buy RHEL. Frugal people who need FIPS buy Oracle. RHEL is still open source, and the cheapskates who rely on CentOS can still do so, they just don't get to ride on RHEL's engineering work backporting new fixes to old software. Elastic never had a sticky business model.
I don’t know what the alternative is are you in favour of propping up private companies and keeping this status quo? That’s alternative of free markets. Right now they aren’t free. AOC and Ben Shapiro of all people agree for once. This is a stage 7 brundlefly economic system.
Especially if they don't at least provide the opportunity to collateralize the position so the user can avoid selling at a loss if they want to try & wait out the trade ban.
Sure. Because if you're a startup hiring SWEs, which are a scarce resource, why would you want them implementing something that exists and isn't part of your core business?

Also, the customer is the PR/marketing department, not the engineering department. The marketing people already know how to use these platforms well, so just let them use those.
You are saying that you willfully entered into a loan agreement without reading the terms of the contract. I just don't see that as a defensible position. I don't know how Robinhood does it, but TD Ameritrade was very clear with me what the terms of my margin account were. It's one thing to ignore TOS on an application, it a whole other world to sign a loan agreement without reading the fine print.
The connection is there so that they can have a long-lasting income from ads/snooping etc. They can share a bit of the spoils to get the meat.

If specific units are costing them beyond income, they can probably have telcos disconnect them, or just remote-disable the communication.
Robinhood Reportedly Selling Peoples GME Positions Without Warning Investors Sue
$3B is not shame.
umm I am actually genuinly trying to understand what changed... I thought they already told us they are planning to do an IPO.
Solid start. The page layout options could use a bit more work:

1. It initially defaults to showing two facing pages per screen, but the selector shows "Read a chapter as a long scrolled page" as selected. "Fit 2 page side by side in window" is the same and is presumably the actual default. Switching back to "long scrolled page" from that does do what you'd expect. This is fullscreen on a 1920x1080 desktop display.

2. I personally dislike side-by-side views - I find them distracting - but at this size the line length for "long scrolled page" is too long for readability. I'd prefer a "long scrolled page but with shorter lines and bigger margins" option, like Firefox's reader view.
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It seems we're both right in a way. Cory Doctorow has a through explanation here: https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/28/payment-for-order-flow/#w...

> "Robinhood partners with institutional investors and lets them spy on what the average joes are buying and selling. Sometimes, this is just "market intelligence" ("Hey, people like fidget spinners") but the main event is front-running."

> "If you're paying Robinhood to tell you what assets its customers are about to buy, you can go out and buy them up first and sell them for a profit to Robinhood's customers."

> "Or you can buy some of that asset up because you know its price will go up once Robinhood's customers orders are filled."

> "Citadel Securities is Robinhood's main institutional investor partner."
Riddle me this, who is Robinhood's clearing house?
> Robinhood can do whatever it wants

Is that in it's terms of service?